Brass plaques that once hung in a rural Baptist chapel have now found a new home.

Following the sale of the 160-year-old chapel in Kingcoed this year, the names of the men who gave their lives in the two world wars will now live on at the sister chapel of Raglan.A service to re-dedicate the two brass plaques - remounted by local sculptor Harvey Hood - fittingly took place on Remembrance Sunday and local historian Brinley Morgan gave an insight into the history and the congregation heard how these men lived and died.He spoke of the three men named on the plaque who lost their lives during the First World War: Pte Richard Griffiths, born in Llandenny and died in hospital in Kenya in 1916 and Pte William Evans, who was killed in action on the Somme in July 1916 and who has no known grave. Both were aged just 19.Llandenny man Pte Hubert Reynolds was a volunteer with the Labour Corps, he was classed as a bantam - shorter than 4’11" - and too short to be in the army. So he served in the 15th Cheshire Regiment which was formed to take these particular men. He died of wounds in October 1918 and the last from Raglan District to be killed at the Front at the age of 25, just six weeks before Armistice.The Second World War stories of Sub Lieutenant Henry Weeks and Lance Sergeant Frank Cotterell from Llandenny were also revealed. Henry Weeks from Gwehelog, a former pupil of Monmouth School, was a submariner on HMS P-165 and was torpedoed by a German submarine in 1943. Henry, along with the commander, four officers and 38 other ratings were lost. He still lies with his shipmates off the coast of West Africa, still aged 21.Llandenny resident Frank Cotterell had joined the army in 1938 with the South Wales Borderers and although he deserted twice before the war began, he became a valued NCO and fought in Normandy with the 3 Mons against Germany’s crack 1st Parachute Army with the task of destroying the German forces between the Rhine and Maas rivers.He lost his life, along with many other 3 Mons on 28 February 1945 during Operation Verity supporting tanks of the 15/19 Hussars. He was the last Raglan man to die in action, a mere 11 weeks before hostilities ceased.The full stories of these men are in two books that Brinley has written and bring home the loss borne by parishioners from the local area whose men made the supreme sacrifice and were remembered on Sunday and whose names will now "liveth for evermore".Then Rosemary Morrison explained how Kingcoed Chapel had been built in 1845 and was known as the daughter church to Raglan, enjoying combined Sunday school parties and the annual trip to Barry Island. But falling congregations saw the last service in Sept 2017, taken by Michael Mortimer. The chapel was sold last month for £89,500.